Main professional courses: geography, cartography, computer science and technology, physical geography, economic geography, remote sensing principle and technology, database structure, GIS principle, GIS design and application, etc.

Engineering mathematics, high-level language programming, database management system, photogrammetry, remote sensing technology and application, geographic information system principle, GPS theory and application, GIS design and development, network GIS, computer graphics.

Extended data

Geographic information system (GIS) is to store the map information in the computer and make an electronic map, so that people can quickly find the target through the computer. For example, this technology can be used to make an electronic map of the city. When we query the bus routes, we only need to input the names of the starting point and the ending point, and we can find out the relevant trains, and get the geographical information such as the roads and transfer stations along the way.

Geographic information system (GIS) has great practical value, which can be widely used in urban land use planning, transportation planning, natural resources protection, water and gas pipelines and disaster monitoring and prevention, and has gradually become an important part of the information industry.

In medicine, the use of geographic information system to make blood vessel distribution map and internal structure map of organs can reflect the position relationship of various parts of the human body very intuitively, so it has been used as a powerful auxiliary medical means.

It is precisely because of the advantages of geographic information system that it has been fully applied to all sectors of the national economy, permeating all aspects of people's lives, and profoundly affecting the ability and way of people to obtain information. ?

This major is based on geography, with computer technology as the main auxiliary means. Compared with geography major, this major focuses on cultivating students' computer skills and their ability to solve geographic information problems with computers, not just geography itself. Therefore, it is necessary to learn more computer knowledge and master basic skills such as remote sensing technology and map drawing technology during college.